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Ben Ali’s medical coup (1987)
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7 Nov 1987 — Prime Minister Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has doctors certify the 84-year-old Bourguiba unfit to govern and takes power under Article 57 of the constitution, promising pluralism. Within four years Islamists are crushed and opposition is hollowed out.
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- Tunisia under Ben Ali (chapter 8 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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- Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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